On Monday afternoon, 1st District assemblyman Brian Dahle came to Yreka for an open town hall meeting.

With the Assembly in recess, Dahle wanted "to get out and connect with my voters and the people who didn't support me, too, and have conversations about where we want to head in California."

Major themes of the evening's open forum included health care, water issues, the dam controversy and 2nd Amendment rights.

While discussing the 2nd Amendment, Dahle provided a list of 46 gun bills from the 2013-2014 session, including taxes on ammunition, clip restrictions and other prohibitions. Dahle noted that the tax bills on ammunition are not moving through the Assembly, but with the Senate still in session, many other gun-related bills remain open for August.

"To put you at ease, I will not be supporting any of those bills that take away from our 2nd Amendment rights," said Dahle. He did mention he believes Gov. Brown will sign any gun-related bill that reaches his desk.

Regarding the dam controversy, Dahle clearly stated, "I do not want to see the dams come out."

Dahle said of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) that it puts the doctors, hospitals and healthcare providers in a position akin to gambling. He pointed out the problem right now is that nobody can give an answer regarding the effects of the ACA, making it difficult to decide how to act.

"If you don't know where you're going, you can't plan on how to get there," said Dahle.

When the issue of Fire Prevention fees was raised, Dahle said that he voted against it, but it will start again. His suggestion is to pay under protest and hoped they would be found unconstitutional.

Dahle wanted members of his district to know that he feels one of his roles as a member of the super-minority party is to build relationships with other legislatures, educate his peers on Siskiyou County's issues – such as water, forestry, fire fighting and resource management – and bring some common sense to the process.

Since his time in office, he's had six Democrat legislatures – no Republicans – visit Siskiyou County while he went to the Environmental Caucus and spent time in L.A. Both steps he believes will help the educating process.

"They have some of the same issues we have," said Dahle, providing a lack of jobs and groundwater issues as examples.

Dahle closed the meeting with a rally call to get Republicans in office in other districts to lessen their super-minority status.

"That's how we win," said Dahle.

This call to action asked Dahle's constituents to travel south to promote Republican Andy Vidak in his race against Democrat Leticia Perez for 16th District State Senate seat.

Page 2 of 2 - Working with the California Association of Realtors, Dahle will provide the buses that will head to both Fresno and Bakersfield. There, volunteers will go door-to-door and hand out flyers to support Vidak's campaign.

Dahle was sworn in Dec. 3, 2012. He is the vice chair of the Environmental Safety and Toxic Material and Revenue and Taxation committees and sits on the Water, Parks and Wildlife and Agriculture committees among others.

His legislation includes AJR 9 (Secure Rural School Funding), AJR 24 (Forest Protection and Restoration) and AB 354 (Ballot Initiatives), as well as AB 254 (Modoc County Elections), which has been signed in by Gov. Brown.

He operates a farm in Lassen County and was previously elected to the Lassen County Board of Supervisors in 1996.